Jobs

Kai Ryssdal talks to Marketplace's Steve Henn about former HP CEO Mike Hurd hopping over to another tech company, Oracle.

President Barack Obama introduced another stimulus package today, but with the effects of the last package unclear at best, will this new stimulus work?

On this Labor Day, there are just under 15 million people who are out of work in the U.S. So many are heading to a job fair. But has the form and function of job fairs changed during the Great Recession? Andrea Gardner reports.

Kai Ryssdal talks to Marketplace's Mitchell Hartman about job creation and how long-term unemployment is redirecting many Americans' life choices.

Tess Vigeland talks to Sally Gordon, who at 101 years old was recently honored to be "America's Outstanding Oldest Worker."

Since the recession, many new grads have struggled to find jobs. But with steep cuts from district budgets and layoffs, new teachers find it especially challenging to find a position.

The latest jobs report has us down 54,000 jobs while the unemployment rate ticked up to 9.6%. Liz Ann Sonders from Charles Schwab talks with Steve Chiotakis about whether it is surprising that we keep losing jobs and CBS MoneyWatch's Jill Schlesinger tells us why this is the result of a "two decade party."

President Obama is considering trying to create new jobs with some new tax breaks for businesses. Reporter Jeremy Hobson talks with Bill Radke about what the White House wants to do.

New York Times columnist David Leonhardt says that the lack of hiring is the bigger problem in today's economy, more so than the number of layoffs.

Some economists are predicting an increase in unemployment over July's numbers when we get the jobs report for August. Could we be in for persistently high unemployment for the long haul? Mitchell Hartman reports.